Non-dealership personal sales of cars, unless explicitly stated in a contract, are sold caveat emptor.
They're sold with basic protections in place, and sellers are required to:
Not intentionally misrepresent the car - no rolling back the odometer, no claiming it's got features it doesn't have, no falsely claiming you put in a new transmission last month, etc. Disclose anything they know of that is a safety issue - no selling a car with no brakes without disclosing that.
Even when you throw in "as-is" on a ad / contract / bill of sale, the seller is still forbidden from committing outright fraud and can still be found liable for knowingly putting someone behind the wheel of a death box without telling them.
Actually, I tried to, but half of the time they told me shit like "Nah, we can't do that at the bank, go online to do it." or "Nah, we're Bank of America and you need to call Banc of America, despite the fact that your card says Bank of America on it.". I closed my fucking accounts when they said they wouldn't block the repeated fraudulent ACH withdrawals from my checking account. They said they would block transactions from XYZ for a specific amount, $N, but XYZ was free to steal $N+1 or $100*N at any time.
I'd say that more than half of the insecurity and general fucked-upedness of banking in the US resides with the banks, not with the methods people access the banks. The fact that we're barely transitioning to chip-and-sign (not even chip-and-pin) is a great example of how little they care.
Can the editors please do their jobs? I consider myself to be pretty tech-savvy, but we can't all be expected to know every acronym for every open source project and kickstarted company.
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Breaking News: CNN is reporting that billionaire real estate goon Donald Trump has just announced his official endorsement of Donald Trump. We at CNN cannot yet confirm these reports, but we have no standards so we're still reporting them. I repeat: We have unconfirmed reports that Donald Trump has officially endorsed Donald Trump. These reports are coming from CNN. We at CNN will bring you more as the non-story develops.
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"Hiding" the update does absolutely nothing. For another example, make sure you don't have Silverlight installed then scan for updates. Hide the "DERP PLZ INSTALL SILVERLIGHT" update, then scan for updates again.
I played them in MPC-HD as well, didn't investigate further but it's typical of research papers to have shitty / badly formatted photos and videos. No idea why.
And FF refuses to play the files, saying they're corrupt. Chrome shows a blank image but does happily tick the clock through the length of the video. Opening them in WMP triggers a data execution mitigation prevention in EMET, which closes WMP immediately. I don't have any other media players on this box, but Windows 7 does render a thumbnail of the video (via the media presentation foundation horseshit), so I'm going to assume there's some sort of video data in these files.
So they're triple speed videos. (If they meant that they're double speed they should have said they're accelerated by a factor of 1, or by 100 percent. I'm going to take them at their actual word.)
No, I'm mostly liking The Expanse so far. It's not quite what I was hoping for, but it's more than I was expecting. I also mostly like Dark Matter, I liked Childhood's End, and am on the fence about 12 Monkeys.
These aren't like Continuum, Magicians, Alphas, Eureka, or whatever else they shit out.
The law is designed "to provide for the regulation and promotion of civil aviation in such manner as to best foster its development and safety, and to provide for the safe and efficient use of the airspace by both civil and military aircraft, and for other purposes".
The FAA has been shitting out regs that do NOT promote civil aviation in a manner that best fosters its development and safety. You could argue for safety and then claim safety trumps all, but we all know that's not true. Banning cell phones on airplanes has nothing to do with safety. Neither does granting flight attendants unlimited "fuck you, do as I say or I'll make the other passengers hog tie you and when we land you'll head straight to the rape room" powers over passengers. And we all know safety doesn't trump all - if that were true we wouldn't fly at all.
The only way to defeat ad blockers is to wait for verification that the ad was served before you deliver content. Then you have to hope that users are willing to add an exception for your site to allow ad and a plethora of shitty scripts and tracking crap in order to see your content.
There have been exactly two cases where I've allowed ads to allow content: 1 - Watching South Park episodes on the official site. 2 - Watching the first 4 episodes of The Expanse on syfy.com before the TV premier.
In both cases I just used IE instead of FF and muted and browsed elsewhere whenever the ads came on.
Derpal is Wordpress for business / education. It's what you use to host a site when you need some bullshit on the web quickly, you don't care about it being good or secure, and you want someone else to manage the content. (Note that they'll still come to you for help for every single thing.)
MIT is an early adopter, assigning post-docs to help professors interpret this new data.
It's the post-docz fault, really. If they want to be employable they need at LEAST some post-post-doc education / research experience. Surely then the old professors will retire / die and let one of the 35-year-old youngins fight over a single assistant professor position.
If they play their cards right by the time they're 50 they'll be an associate professor, and if they publish, publish, publish they'll make tenure and become a full vampire^w professor.
2.4GHz allows very directional antennas. It is possible to hit a drone with a spot beam without wrecking all 2.4GHz comms on the ground. They must have tought of this - otherwise, the device won't be legal.
Jamming radio communications is illegal regardless of how selectively you do it.
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Non-dealership personal sales of cars, unless explicitly stated in a contract, are sold caveat emptor.
They're sold with basic protections in place, and sellers are required to:
Not intentionally misrepresent the car - no rolling back the odometer, no claiming it's got features it doesn't have, no falsely claiming you put in a new transmission last month, etc.
Disclose anything they know of that is a safety issue - no selling a car with no brakes without disclosing that.
Even when you throw in "as-is" on a ad / contract / bill of sale, the seller is still forbidden from committing outright fraud and can still be found liable for knowingly putting someone behind the wheel of a death box without telling them.
I do all my banking at a bank.
Actually, I tried to, but half of the time they told me shit like "Nah, we can't do that at the bank, go online to do it." or "Nah, we're Bank of America and you need to call Banc of America, despite the fact that your card says Bank of America on it.". I closed my fucking accounts when they said they wouldn't block the repeated fraudulent ACH withdrawals from my checking account. They said they would block transactions from XYZ for a specific amount, $N, but XYZ was free to steal $N+1 or $100*N at any time.
I'd say that more than half of the insecurity and general fucked-upedness of banking in the US resides with the banks, not with the methods people access the banks. The fact that we're barely transitioning to chip-and-sign (not even chip-and-pin) is a great example of how little they care.
I'll bring you a bucket of water, you quasi-sentient clod!
Can the editors please do their jobs?
I consider myself to be pretty tech-savvy, but we can't all be expected to know every acronym for every open source project and kickstarted company.
Can someone please tell me what the fuck AOL is?
For clean fingers, always lick after you pick.
Illicit gains > anticipated cost of getting caught? Proceed to fuck everyone.
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Breaking News: CNN is reporting that billionaire real estate goon Donald Trump has just announced his official endorsement of Donald Trump. We at CNN cannot yet confirm these reports, but we have no standards so we're still reporting them. I repeat: We have unconfirmed reports that Donald Trump has officially endorsed Donald Trump. These reports are coming from CNN. We at CNN will bring you more as the non-story develops.
THIS IS WOLF BLITZER AND YOU'RE IN THE SITUATION ROOM
Yeah, our year will be as short as Jupiter's if we keep adding mass!
Silverlight simply unhides itself every time you scan for updates.
"Hiding" the update does absolutely nothing.
For another example, make sure you don't have Silverlight installed then scan for updates. Hide the "DERP PLZ INSTALL SILVERLIGHT" update, then scan for updates again.
You hotboxing it?
I played them in MPC-HD as well, didn't investigate further but it's typical of research papers to have shitty / badly formatted photos and videos. No idea why.
And FF refuses to play the files, saying they're corrupt. Chrome shows a blank image but does happily tick the clock through the length of the video. Opening them in WMP triggers a data execution mitigation prevention in EMET, which closes WMP immediately. I don't have any other media players on this box, but Windows 7 does render a thumbnail of the video (via the media presentation foundation horseshit), so I'm going to assume there's some sort of video data in these files.
Buried in the paper which is blind-linked in the article:
http://advances.sciencemag.org...
http://advances.sciencemag.org...
http://advances.sciencemag.org...
http://advances.sciencemag.org...
http://advances.sciencemag.org...
"All movies are accelerated by a factor of 2."
So they're triple speed videos. (If they meant that they're double speed they should have said they're accelerated by a factor of 1, or by 100 percent. I'm going to take them at their actual word.)
They left the domain registered for years to a person who is no longer involved with X.Org — and doesn't want to relinquish it
I hope the registered owner prevails and either keeps the domain or sells it to the highest bidder.
No, I'm mostly liking The Expanse so far. It's not quite what I was hoping for, but it's more than I was expecting.
I also mostly like Dark Matter, I liked Childhood's End, and am on the fence about 12 Monkeys.
These aren't like Continuum, Magicians, Alphas, Eureka, or whatever else they shit out.
most powerful hurricane ever
Please define "most" and "ever", because it's clear you're not using them correctly.
The FAA can regulate the skies
The FFA can regulate the skies only to the extent that the regulations serve the purpose of the FAA as defined in the fucking law.
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/...
The law is designed "to provide for the regulation and promotion of civil aviation in such manner as to best foster its development and safety, and to provide for the safe and efficient use of the airspace by both civil and military aircraft, and for other purposes".
The FAA has been shitting out regs that do NOT promote civil aviation in a manner that best fosters its development and safety. You could argue for safety and then claim safety trumps all, but we all know that's not true. Banning cell phones on airplanes has nothing to do with safety. Neither does granting flight attendants unlimited "fuck you, do as I say or I'll make the other passengers hog tie you and when we land you'll head straight to the rape room" powers over passengers. And we all know safety doesn't trump all - if that were true we wouldn't fly at all.
Pretty much.
The only way to defeat ad blockers is to wait for verification that the ad was served before you deliver content.
Then you have to hope that users are willing to add an exception for your site to allow ad and a plethora of shitty scripts and tracking crap in order to see your content.
There have been exactly two cases where I've allowed ads to allow content:
1 - Watching South Park episodes on the official site.
2 - Watching the first 4 episodes of The Expanse on syfy.com before the TV premier.
In both cases I just used IE instead of FF and muted and browsed elsewhere whenever the ads came on.
Derpal is Wordpress for business / education. It's what you use to host a site when you need some bullshit on the web quickly, you don't care about it being good or secure, and you want someone else to manage the content. (Note that they'll still come to you for help for every single thing.)
The best thing you can do with a "Smart TV" is dumb the fuck out of it.
Just pull out. It works if you're not a retard.
A DRAM cell goes through trillions of cycles in its live time.
Typical DDR4 (2133) runs at a little over 1 GHz, or a billion cycles per second of operation.
We're in the quadrillions scale, not trillions.
MIT is an early adopter, assigning post-docs to help professors interpret this new data.
It's the post-docz fault, really. If they want to be employable they need at LEAST some post-post-doc education / research experience.
Surely then the old professors will retire / die and let one of the 35-year-old youngins fight over a single assistant professor position.
If they play their cards right by the time they're 50 they'll be an associate professor, and if they publish, publish, publish they'll make tenure and become a full vampire^w professor.
2.4GHz allows very directional antennas. It is possible to hit a drone with a spot beam without wrecking all 2.4GHz comms on the ground. They must have tought of this - otherwise, the device won't be legal.
Jamming radio communications is illegal regardless of how selectively you do it.